Sajiaocheng, Huludao City (Jiufotang Formation) (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Shuikouzi

Where: Liaoning, China (40.8° N, 120.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° N, 121.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jiufotang Formation (Jehol Group), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• "Early Cretaceous" (Aptian based on age of other Jiufotang collections)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, black shale

• "slabs of gray-black shale"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: Z. Dong and Y. Wang. 1998. A new urodele (Liaoxitriton zhongjiani gen. et sp. nov.) from the Early Cretaceous of western Liaoning Province, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 36(4):159-172 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92073: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 28.10.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Caudata - Urodela
Liaoxitriton zhongjiani n. gen. n. sp.
Liaoxitriton zhongjiani n. gen. n. sp. Dong and Wang 1998 salamander
"Several dozen articulated skeletons" (Wang 2004)